Word: projects
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...care about the migrant grape workers and the dangers of their plight. We affirm our long-standing point of boycotting the California grape industry. Nevertheless, Alexandra McNitt, project manager at HDS, is right on target: "All I do is talk about grapes." We feel the same way. Last week the momentum was high: vigils, debates, posters, buttons--everyone had an opinion. And now that energy has been lost. For this reason we are disappointed with Harvard Dining Service's (HDS) handling of the "Great Grape referendum." We push HDS to keep the best option on the ballot: buying grapes only...
...success of this project will depend upon continual cooperation and communication between the government and the participating institutions and programs," cautions the INS in a news release about CIRPRIS...
...three-year-old company has been expanding at a Planet Hollywood-like pace. This week Mills opens a $188 million mall in Tempe, Ariz., its seventh location, and just last month it completed a new mall in Dallas. Siegel has unveiled plans for a huge new project at the site of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn., along with new malls near Boston and Honolulu. And the concept has been catchy: rival Glimcher Realty Trust recently opened a Mills-like Great Mall of the Great Plains near Kansas City, Kans...
...recent session, Alison Garcia, 12, stood up, tears in her eyes, and exclaimed, "All Hispanics are not dumb! You don't know me. My father and my uncle were part of the Cherokee tribe, and my uncle had the highest scores in school." Says Gullatte: "What the Group X project did was help me to be able to tell other people about [my experiences] and say what I really feel." It's just talk. But it's a start...
...Hollywood history: In 1984, convinced that the Amistad episode would make a great film, Debbie Allen, the actress (Fame) and choreographer (numerous Academy Award shows), optioned a historical novel about the case, Black Mutiny. After nearly 10 years of making no headway with the project, she took it to DreamWorks SKG, the fledgling studio founded by Spielberg with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...